UK baby killer Letby given another life sentence for attempted murder
It comes nearly a year after a different jury found the former nurse guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others, making her Britain's most prolific child serial killer in modern history.
LONDON - A UK judge on Friday handed child serial killer Lucy Letby another whole-life order for the attempted murder of a baby girl, following her latest conviction earlier this week.
Judge James Goss called Letby's crime "another shocking act of calculated, callous cruelty" as he sentenced the 34-year-old at Manchester Crown Court, in northwest England.
A jury at the same court on Tuesday convicted Letby of attempting to murder another baby girl at the hospital neo-natal unit where she worked nearly a decade ago.
It comes nearly a year after a different jury found the former nurse guilty of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others, making her Britain's most prolific child serial killer in modern history.
She is already serving a whole-life prison sentence for those crimes and was earlier this year refused an appeal bid.
"During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for any offences and sought to attribute wrongdoing to others," Goss said in his sentencing remarks Friday. "You have no remorse."
As she was led from the dock, Letby said: "I'm innocent."
She had faced a retrial for the attempted murder of the baby girl, referred to in court as Child K, at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England in 2016.
Jurors at her original trial last year had failed to reach a verdict on that charge. - AFP
